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December 10th, 2025
Image credit: Overview Energy
Overview Energy, a space startup, has announced its plan on building a constellation of large, deployable power-beaming satellites.
Based in Ashburn, Virginia, the group has initiated an ongoing airborne program that has already demonstrated precise delivery of low-intensity, infrared light from a moving aircraft to solar panels on the ground.
The power-beaming hardware uses the same optics and lasers that would fly in orbit, the company explains. Overview Energy adds that a next step is a low Earth orbit demonstration in 2028, with commercial operations in geosynchronous orbit targeted to begin in 2030 with the world’s first megawatt transmission from space.
Image credit: Overview Energy
“In the early 2030s, we’ll be capable of delivering more than a gigawatt of 24/7 clean energy anywhere on Earth,” the group reports.
Aircraft demonstration
In November 2025, Overview Energy achieved what they say is a world first in power beaming: transmitting power from a moving airplane to solar panels on the ground, across a distance of more than 16,500 feet (5,000 meters).
Image credit: Overview Energy
Overview’s laser and optical systems were loaded into a Cessna Caravan airplane. On the ground, the group installed a receiver of standard solar panels, like those used in utility-scale projects or homes. As the aircraft flew overhead, the system identified the receiver, locked onto it, and beamed the infrared light. The panels converted that light into electricity in the same way they convert sunlight.
Infrared power beaming ground test.
Image credit: Overview Energy/Inside Outer Space screengrab
Mass manufacturing
The power-beaming team points out that launch costs have dropped more than tenfold. Mass manufacturing satellites is now routine and high-efficiency photovoltaics and high-power, high-efficiency lasers have become inexpensive, reliable, and commercially available.
“Space solar energy can sound like something far off in the future: satellites in orbit, precision optics, lasers delivering energy to Earth. But we’ve changed that,” explains the group.
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